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John Saxon (born Carmine Orrico; August 5, 1935 – July 25, 2020) was an American actor and martial artist who worked on more than 200 projects during a span of 60 years. Saxon is known for his work in Westerns and horror movies, often playing police officers and detectives.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Saxon studied acting with Stella Adler before beginning his career as a contract actor for Universal Pictures, playing in such movies as Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) and Portrait in Black (1961). During the 1970s and 1980s, he established himself as a character actor, frequently portraying law enforcement officials in horror movies such as Black Christmas (1974), Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
In addition to his roles in horror movies, Saxon co-starred with Bruce Lee in the martial arts movie Enter the Dragon (1973), and has supporting roles in the westerns Death of a Gunfighter (1969) and Joe Kidd (1972), as well as the adventure thriller Raid on Entebbe (1977). In the 1990s, Saxon occasionally appeared in movies, with small roles in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) and From Dusk till Dawn (1996).
Saxon died of pneumonia in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on July 25, 2020.
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31 January 1973
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
01 January 1982
Joan Mulligan is waiting in vain for her husband, Arthur Blanc, an Etruscologist who has traveled to Tuscany in search of materials for an exhibition.
09 November 1984
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides.
19 January 1996
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
10 November 1970
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
28 March 2002
A handsome and talented college student, David Morales, is devastated when a bum knee causes him to lose his scholarship to the University of San Diego.
05 December 2006
An interview with the cast and crew of the cult horror film Black Christmas (1974), hosted by John Saxon, who starred in the film.
12 September 2006
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
12 December 1963
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
10 January 1991
A kid unknowingly carries a bomb to his parents. When they get killed he is traumatized. Many hellish years later he vows revenge against the criminals who gave him the bomb.
19 August 1982
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.
10 March 1958
A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.
17 August 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
01 January 1995
A man must track down the reasons behind his brother's mysterious death, and uncovers a secret neo-Nazi group headed by a powerful congressman.
05 November 1960
Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay.
08 January 1965
A story about a Filipino guerilla Sargent who was tasked to ambush a company of Japanese soldiers staying at a convent.
06 June 1982
An exploration of the relationship between a lawyer and a beautiful heiress, from scandal to a mysterious death.
13 December 1966
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
07 March 1969
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
01 January 1968
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time.
13 October 1994
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
01 May 1962
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
24 November 2009
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company.
27 September 1989
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.
24 May 1994
When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World.
19 March 2002
Retro century docu-drama for horror anthologies in mind.
26 December 1976
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
13 July 1975
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
21 October 1992
A cop and his sexually frustrated wife are struggling to keep their failing marriage intact, when by chance she finds that he is at heart a voyeuristic peeping tom.
24 April 2001
In this action-packed thriller, ex-cop Joey Randall (Richard Grieco) suddenly finds his affair with Sharon Moreno (Priscilla Barnes), wife of Police Chief George Moreno (John Saxon), has turned deadly.
27 February 1987
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
15 January 1954
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park.
06 April 1960
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
04 May 2010
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
10 October 2005
While investigating a case, Nick is abducted and is buried alive in a special coffin while his team takes unorthodox steps to try to find him.
20 November 1978
The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco earthquake to become a shipping magnate, rise to the top of Nob Hill's society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family, and find happiness with an Asian mistress despite the collapse of his fortune during the Wall Street crash.
03 November 2009
Documentary on the life and death of Bob Clark, a director of movies such as Christmas Story, Porky's and Black Christmas.
03 December 2002
A featurette hosted by Art Hindle and Lynne Griffin, who revisit the original house from the movie 'Black Christmas'.
19 July 1972
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire.
01 December 1956
A high school rock group enters a band contest.
01 January 1992
Cowhairs want to drive farmers away from their lands. Luke takes matters into his own hands, and even Lotta's beauty and kindness can't hold him back.
25 September 1981
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
01 June 1977
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local crime syndicate.
08 September 1980
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
05 June 1968
Anne and Helen move into a California apartment complex for single only where all the occupants are looking to hook up.
01 May 1973
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.
05 February 1974
A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group.
01 October 1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
15 June 1962
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down.
28 October 1982
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
01 August 1959
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
01 December 1988
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
21 December 1979
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show.
12 August 1968
Suave gambler Clay Watson, cocky sharpshooter Moses Lang, and wily thespian Edwin Kean are a trio of criminals in the Old West.
26 June 1964
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid.
11 October 1974
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
10 September 1975
A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book development work as well as normal social graces.
08 December 1978
Kumar, a thief by profession poses as the son of Raja Bahadur Singh to accept an invitation to the island of Sir John Locksley.
04 September 2004
Documentary on the life and work of B-movie filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer, spanning from his early life to his last film.
28 October 1991
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s.
